ցախ

Inherited from Old Armenian ցախ (cʻax).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɑχ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /t͡sɑχ/,

ցախ • (cʻax)

1. brushwood, dry twigs for fire; firewood
2. twigs put near a silkworm, on which it starts spinning its silk cocoon

• ցաք (cʻakʻ)

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱokHo-. Cognates include Sanskrit शाखा (śākhā, “branch”), Gothic 𐌷𐍉𐌷𐌰 (hōha, “plough”), Old East Slavic соха (soxa, “stake, club, brace, plough”), Lithuanian šakà (“branch”), Old Irish géc (“branch”) and Persian شاخ (šâx, “branch”). Dialectal ցաք (cʻakʻ) is of the same origin.

ցախ • (cʻax)

1. (botany) ash tree or maple tree
2. branch, twig with leaves
3. scrub, brush, thicket
4. brushwood, dry twigs for fire, firewood
5. (botany) heather
6. (as an adjective, figuratively) tangled in a dense mass

   ցախ մօրուք ― cʻax mōrukʻ ― matted beard

• Armenian: ցախ (cʻax)
• Georgian: ცახი (caxi), ცახე (caxe)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ցախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ցախ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian‎, Zagreb, page 11
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “c‘ax”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 619–621
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ցախ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy